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Not everyone needs to buy stuff to make them feel happy. My happiness is found in my friends ;P

I have to agree with Kyle not everyone needs objests to make them happy..my friends are the greatest thing in my life

I dun get the question.

As has been said, I actually don’t know many people at all that would find happiness from abusing earth’s resources.

Im happy, why arent you happy Jimreeve

jimreeve wrote:
The first three responses seem to be from people who live in very small universes.
Try thinking “we” rather than just “me”.

Why think “we” im only “me” I am not “we” and can only deal with “me”

some people just are not happy with their lives which is sad yes,,but the fact that your grouping in peolpe who dont care about material stuff with people who only care about material stuff is just wrong.

what’s wrong with caring about material stuff? in excess maybe

We already have everything we need for happiness already with us. We buy things to convince ourselves that we need them but we don’t. The truth of the matter is the things that truly gives us happiness are free.

You can buy all the things in the world but you can not make someone love you. If you have love in your heart, everything will not matter.

hmmm I blame the government for making people care about material things

jezzi_a wrote:
hmmm I blame the government for making people care about material things

blame the goverment? why not blame the people, they do have free will.

dave1971199 wrote:
We already have everything we need for happiness already with us. We buy things to convince ourselves that we need them but we don’t. The truth of the matter is the things that truly gives us happiness are free.You can buy all the things in the world but you can not make someone love you. If you have love in your heart, everything will not matter.

Baloney; the world would be boring if not for material things. Even as simple as a walking stick to view the world on treks is still a material thing.

the government is to blame for all of Americas downfalls they are suppose to be keeping the nation together not tearing it apart but No they make more money by scaring the living **** out of people..therefore the people think that their lives could end sooner than expected therefore they buy these things

I did not say that material things do not help, because they do but, we need to be responsibility for all the waste that we cause. Is it necessary to upgrade our phones, computers, TV, cars every year?

The truth of the matter isn’t in the hands of a single person. If companies reduced the amount of packaging they waste on products, that would make a difference, without anyone having to change their life styles that much.

The world is as boring or as interesting as we chose to imagine it.

In the past, people didn’t have computers, games consoles, TVs and they were happy in their own way. These things that we all buy do entertain but aren’t necessary to enjoy life.

I get yer point jimreeve, and I agree with it, and I think we should stop consuming resources and using them so much to find different happiness.

jezzi_a wrote:
the government is to blame for all of Americas downfalls they are suppose to be keeping the nation together not tearing it apart but No they make more money by scaring the living **** out of people..therefore the people think that their lives could end sooner than expected therefore they buy these things

What? The government is suppose to be keeping the nation together? Its this attitude expressed here that make it possible for the people in Washington to make more money by scaring the living **** out of people.

The government is not suppose to keep the nation together, the citizens , you, are suppose to keep the country together. The government should be nothing more then the collective will of the citizens, you.

dave1971199 wrote:
I did not say that material things do not help, because they do but, we need to be responsibility for all the waste that we cause. Is it necessary to upgrade our phones, computers, TV, cars every year?

The truth of the matter isn’t in the hands of a single person. If companies reduced the amount of packaging they waste on products, that would make a difference, without anyone having to change their life styles that much.

Who upgrade our phones, computers, TV, cars every year. I dont know a single person who does this.

That would be nice but we all know that the pay masters come first and they are you or I but people or companies with a lot of money.

dave1971199 wrote:
The world is as boring or as interesting as we chose to imagine it.

In the past, people didn’t have computers, games consoles, TVs and they were happy in their own way. These things that we all buy do entertain but aren’t necessary to enjoy life.

They may not have had computers, games consoles, and TVs but they did have material things of their own.

I did and it never brought me happiness. It just made me poor.

Fair point, I have you give way to that point

dave1971199 wrote:
I did and it never brought me happiness. It just made me poor.

Then you where prity silly, a phone is a phoen, why would you need another one in a year you talk just the same.

dave1971199 wrote:
That would be nice but we all know that the pay masters come first and they are you or I but people or companies with a lot of money.

That’s only because people like jezzi_a allow it to be that way, by believing the government is something other then the people of the country. Seeing the government as something external to blame for not helping us, when its us we need to blame for not making our government help us.

I disagree the government wants to run the country then they need to keep it together I am not responsible for 9/11 the government is

The goverment doesnt run the country - you are supose to run the country.

then what the hell are they doing sitting in those fancy chairs?

jezzi_a wrote:
then what the hell are they doing sitting in those fancy chairs?

Doing what they want till you tell them otherwise

no they are trying to form a dictatorship